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Help Wanted: Fan Edit of Episode I

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After watching Episode I (and buying a new 320gb hard drive), I have decided to edit this terrible film for my own private collection. I have seen Magnoliafan’s edit, and yes, I do like it. But I want mine to be a bit more conservative. I dont want to subtitle anyone, or even change the title or opening scroll. Basically, I just want to take out the childish scenes, clips, and sayings. This, of course, means that my focus will mainly be on Jar Jar.

I have worked on several projects with Adobe Premiere, so I’m not a total newbie.

Here’s what I want to do:

  1. Rip the dvd to the disk, in an uncompressed AVI
  2. Cut various parts of the film
  3. Add a couple deleted scenes
  4. Convert to MPEG-2 with CCE, so that it will fit nicely on a Dual Layer DVD+R

My question is, what should I use for steps all this?

  1. Ripping the dvd to an uncompressed AVI isnt difficult, but what program would be the best?
    2 & 3) I would like to use Adobe Premiere because I am very fimiliar with it. If I do use it, will it be able to output an uncompressed AVI without losing any quality. I know this is a stupid question, but I’ve only used premiere to save a video to a different format, I’ve never saved to an uncompressed AVI.

BTW, I have a PC.
Any advice would be much appreciated.

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You sure you can't use a D2V with Premiere? That'll save you gobs of hard drive space, and be every bit as good as an uncompressed AVI. You'll need DGIndex, which you'll be able to find at Doom9.org.
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If you really want to go the uncompressed route then you could rip the dvd with DVD decrypter, then use DVD Shrink and re-author and just select the 'Main Movie' and put it back out as a 'Hard Disk Folder' at no compression. (This will leave you with just the movie itself to worry about, no menus extras and what have you).
Untick the option to break it into 1GB files and you will end up with a single .VOB file of the enitre film.
(You may be able to use just DVD Shrink and bypass DVD Decrypter if you want)

Then You could load it into virtualdubmod as a single file and output it to huffyuv or a similar lossless codec.

You could then load it directly into any program that can edit .avi files , premiere included.
Save your edits back out using a lossless codec, and then you could re-encode the whole thing using CCE to get it on a dual layer disc.

ALl of the above is only if you want to go that way, you could use .d2v files as Karyudo mentioned, or use an Avid and edit the files directly.

Either way, the answer is yep you can do it on your PC with Premiere and a few free programs.

Head on over to doom9.org, it will literally have *all* your answers and more.
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If you really want uncompressed AVI (and personally, I'd do everything in my power to avoid that, considering the 'master' is already MPEG-2 at 4:2:0), then you can also use a .d2v. Make one with DGIndex, write a line or two of AviSynth script, load that into VDub, and dump it out as if it were a monolithic .vob on your hard drive.
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Let me clarify just a bit.

I want to cut parts of the movie, add some deleted scenes, and burn to a DL disc WITHOUT ANY QUALITY LOSS. I want everything to be exactly the same quality as it is on the retail dvd.

What would be the easiest way to accomplish this. Assume disk space isnt an issue. I would like to spend most of my time editing, as opposed to messing with software.


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Short answer: Use Womble MPEG Video Editor to do the splicing and DVD-Lab Pro to do your authoring.

I suggest reading the following threads thoroughly, in this order:

Thought on de-SE'ing the DVD
***The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
***The "9000" Saga Edit***

As they answer a lot of your questions and, more importantly, explain the thought processes and learning experiences.

Beyond that, the 9000 Saga Edit most closely resembles what you're looking for. That thread may offer you the holy grail without all the work, but if nothing else, it's a jumping off point to base your own edit.

Hope this helps steer you in the right direction, and welcome to the machine.
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What about subtitles?

When I watch Ep I, there are no subtitles - even for the alien languages. I have to put it to "Subtitles 2 (English)" to get subtitles that ONLY display for alien talk.

For my edit, I want this Subtitle 2 stream to be permanently encoded in the film - not an option. Is this easy to do, even with the cutting and pasting I'll be doing? I assume that I'll be applying the stream to the mpeg video, then editing.


I just ripped the video with DVD Decrypter. Should I keep it in the standard DVD structure, or should I rip it to create one mpeg file? This might be a stupid question, sorry.




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DVD Decrypter will allow you to force a subtitle on by default. This isn't the same as permanently burning, but it is the path of least resistance.

When you rip with DVD Decrypter, you should demux to the elementary streams. The biggest work you'll have is recreating your subtitles and retiming them to match.

You should make VideoHelp.com your new home. 90% of my DVD Structure understanding came from there. About 10% from here.
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When I rip, should I keep the video in 1gb chunks, or instead can I rip to one large file?

Is there any way for the video editing software to update the subtitles and consider the video that is cut out? I would like to skip the step of recreating and retiming the subtitles.



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